High-grade internal carotid artery stenosis and chronic brain damage: A volumetric magnetic resonance imaging study

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 540-546

  Enzinger, Christian ^a   Ropele, Stefan ^a   Gattringer, Thomas ^a   Langkammer, Christian ^a   Schmidt, Reinhold ^a   Fazekas, Franz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Brain damage; Carotid stenosis; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRUM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 77957790567     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319025     Document Type: Article

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